The crossroads of religion and development : Guatemala's Ixil region, evangelical religion, and Ríos Montt / Blake C. Scott.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Scott, Blake Charles, 1983-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ríos Montt, Efraín.

Christianity and politics--Guatemala--Ixil Region.

Christianity and politics.

Evangelicalism--Guatemala--Ixil Region.

Evangelicalism.

Communism and Christianity--Guatemala--Ixil Region.

Communism and Christianity.

Ixil Region (Guatemala)--Church history.

Ixil Region (Guatemala).

Guatemala.

Genre:

Church history.

Physical Description:

85 pages ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

Saarbrücken, Germany : LAP LAMBERT Academic Pub. Co., [2011]

Summary:

"This book explores how a group of Evangelical Christians aided the Guatemalan army's counterinsurgency campaign, logistically, financially, and theologically, in the highlands of Guatemala in 1982 and 1983. It explains how the military government of General José Efrain Rios Montt turned to evangelical Christianity to buttress anti-Communist and neoliberal development programs in one particular highland area, the Ixil region. The book also sheds light on why U.S. and Guatemalan evangelical missionaries willfully supported a right-wing dictatorship, embracing their role as "spiritual soldiers" and legitimizing the Guatemalan army through theologica teachings and relief work."--Back cover.

Contents:

1. God and development in the Ixil region

2. Gospel of counterinsurgency

3. The spiritual soldiers of U.S. foreign policy

Conclusion.

Notes:

Originally presented as the author's thesis (M.A.)--University of Georgia, 2008.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 79-85).

ISBN:

9783844314977

3844314970

OCLC:

810943488